Night Owl

Der Blaue Engel

Viewed: 06 October 2003
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Listed in: Movies, Class

A Prussian school teacher falls for the traveling dancer Lola Lola, his pupils are sneaking into the Blue Angel to see. Professor Rath is the stern strictest authority in his classroom. He is confounded by the complexity of Lola and the traveling show. He leaves the school and marries her begins traveling with the company. Slowly his world collapses, until he is ultimately forced to become a clown in front of his former pupils. Prussia being taken apart and paraded for Germany’s amusement.

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